From the perspective of having lived in Turkey, I can say that it would take a seismic shift in mindset on the part of pretty much the entire population for it to join the EU. Turkey still has laws in place which it would have to repeal in order to join/doesn't have laws which it would have to introduce - regarding discrimination against people with disabilities, restrictions on freedom of speech and goodness knows what else. Over the course of the negotiations, the Turkish government has tried to implement some of the changes which membership would require, and it's been the backlash against them which has prevented it from implementing the rest.
Put simply, the Turkish government wants to join the EU, but the vasat majority of the Turkish people don't. It's not going to happen in the foreseeable future. |
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